Gamasutra Interviews Feargus

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:05 am

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Gamasutra interviews Obsidian owner and past leader of Black Isle at Interplay. The interview is actually not too bad and he talks about Interplay and the relationship of publisher and developers. Here is a bit of a quote about Fallout 3 that I found interesting;<blockquote>
So, that's kind of an interesting question then. If you look at the
sort of pretty mainstream success of Fallout
3, do you think that they found a way to make a hardcore RPG much more
mainstream than has been done in the past? Or when you look at how Fallout 3 is suceeding compared to what
you've done on Fallout 2 or other
RPGs that you've done...


FU: I think Bethesda did
two things, and I'll start with that sort of thing. Any great game, it's beyond
how exactly you play it. It's how you play it, and a specific "Are there
numbers? and "Are there not numbers?" and all that kind of stuff. It's
more of a feeling.


What really was great about
the original Fallout, Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, was the feeling of being in
this world. And that was attractive. Well, attractive is maybe the wrong word.
It was compelling. (laughs) That's a better word.


I think what Bethesda did
an incredible job at is making you feel like you are in this Fallout world. And that's what we did
back at Black Isle, to make you really feel like you were in this Fallout world. The whole thing -- from
the loading screens to the main menu to the Pip-Boy to all that kind of stuff
-- it really felt like it was a whole cohesive unit of feeling like you're in
this world. And they did that.


When you do that, it is
instantly more compelling to any kind of gamer. As long as they feel like they're
not being hindered by something or that something is annoying in the game, then
they're probably going to enjoy it. And I guess part of that is also taking it,
obviously, from a turn-based PC game to using the Oblivion engine and learning how to use their Oblivion engine and make it Fallout.
And that's not to say that it's just Oblivion:
Fallout.


I think the second thing
that Bethesda did an incredible job at -- and this is what they do really well
-- is they are just behind their games. I think a lot of the success of Fallout 3 in particular -- because
there are people probably at Bethesda that Fallout
3 is not the kind of game that they play -- but they jumped in with both
feet, like, "This is the game. We believe in this game." And I think
that is why you see a success, too. It's almost catching.


In other words, you have a
publisher who's like, "Well, we have these seven games. What do you think?"
Bethesda is, "No, you're buying this damn game." So, I think that the
success was from both ways. They were able to get the feeling of Fallout, and they really believed in
their game. And that belief in the game came through in how they were talking
to everybody and pimping it and all that kind of stuff.
</blockquote>I bolded the last part because I found it interesting and a pretty good description of Bethesda and how they design there games (NO ITS MINEEEEEEE). You can read the whole interview <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4 ... rview_.php" target="_self">here. </a>
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Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:17 am

MR Snake · Post by **MR Snake** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 1:30 pm

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Mechanurgist · Post by **Mechanurgist** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 3:57 pm

I'm giving Beth the finger as hard as I can.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:39 pm

MR Snake wrote:Nice advertisment. Kind of hard to put java in a forum post.

What?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:50 pm

feargus opinion doesnt count because he dropped the ball okay if youve dropped it its gone forever

MR Snake · Post by **MR Snake** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:26 pm

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Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:43 pm

Feargus seems less and less douchey the longer the IP is in the hands of fuckwads like Todd and Pete.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:19 am

Cimmerian Nights wrote:Feargus seems less and less douchey the longer the IP is in the hands of fuckwads like Todd and Pete.

Which is pretty amazing; each time I read what FU has to say I can't help but wonder if Fallout, as it is, was actually a mistake on his portfolio.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:33 am

MR Snake wrote:
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You dont see that?

No, I don't. Fix your internet.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:34 am

Megatron wrote:feargus opinion doesnt count because he dropped the ball okay if youve dropped it its gone forever

Megatron, do you ever refer to Feargus as uncle feargus?

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:53 am

I see it too.

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POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:45 pm

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Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:43 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:
Megatron wrote:feargus opinion doesnt count because he dropped the ball okay if youve dropped it its gone forever

Megatron, do you ever refer to Feargus as uncle feargus?

from time to time, i call all the old timers uncle especially uncle cain sometimes when i get him out of bed i say im raising cain ')

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:31 am

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S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:18 am

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